Secondary Education for Girls under the Japanese Occupation: Focusing on the Mongols in Manchukuo977. Two female teachers introduced in “The Manchurian Daily News”7.1 Articleparticipated in various activities. The parade of the drum and fife corps attracted the attention of all sectors of society.In 1942, XGNHS became a regular four-year junior high school, and in 1943, a one-year teacher training course was introduced to train Mongolian teachers. This was the period when the school underwent great development, and there was a noticeable change in the quality of the students. With four grades comprising 150 students, the school became a center of learning for Mongolian girls with ethnic characteristics.In the spring of 1944, a group of young Mongolian girls who had studied in Japan after graduating from Xing’an Girls Academy returned to teach at XGNHS. Among them were Sobud, Hong Geosheng, Bao Huirong, Hasgerel, and Osong Gaoei.Sobud and others were keenly aware of the shame of the Mongols under Japanese control, and understood that if their homeland and ethnic group were weak, they would be despised abroad. Therefore, it was their common wish to “devote one’s youth and energy to the strengthening of the motherland.” When the girls returned home, they were truly happy to see the development of their alma mater. They also wanted to train human resources from their own ethnic group and promote Mongolian ethnic culture, and thus began their teaching career.As the number of Mongolian students from urban areas and teachers （including returnees from Japan） increased, the school became increasingly like a Mongolian women’s school. Amid such a situation, enforcement of certain practices irked the female students. For instance, when the “Japanese Week” was observed, students were only allowed to speak in Japanese, instead of Mongolian or Chinese. If students spoke in languages other than Japanese in class or in the dormitory, they were fined.In addition, as in other schools in Manchukuo, students were strictly required to show their loyalty to the Emperor as members of the Japanese Empire. Specifically, the students were required to visit shrines on special occasions, express their gratitude to the emperor before meals, and worship at the Imperial Palace. There seems to have been a great deal of opposition to this.During this period in history, food tended to be in short supply, and the mobilization of laborers increased. One of the tasks entrusted to students was to wash and mend the clothes of wounded soldiers, which made some students sick and they refused to do labor service. The Soviet invasion of Manchukuo and the defeat of the Japanese army in August 1945 brought to an end this short history of XGNHS. However, the young girls trained at XGNHS went on to become teachers, researchers, doctors, soldiers, and bureaucrats in various fields of modern Mongolian history.An article about the teachers Shu Domoto and Kimiko Yamane appeared in the Manchurian Daily News, which was published in Manchuria at the time （December 12 and 13, 1939）. The article was written by a Japanese male correspondent named Yamaguchi..The article shows what the Japanese
元のページ ../index.html#103